New York Times (LTE)
June 19, 2018
To the Editor:
Re “Trump Resisting a Growing Wrath for Separations” (front page, June 19):
It is heartbreaking and intolerable to hear the wailing children calling for their parents from cages after having been snatched from the arms of their parents at the border. And it is disgusting and infuriating to watch the “only I can fix it” president standing before the American people blaming Democrats and implying that he can’t do anything with regard to his “zero tolerance” policy at the border.
President Trump believes he can use this inhumane policy to force Congress to shell out the big bucks for a wall that he promised his supporters he would erect and Mexico would pay for. Congressional leaders need to stop this cruelty being perpetrated in all our names and bring to the floor a veto-proof, stand-alone bill that immediately stops separating these families. Period.
FELICIA MASSARSKY
ATLANTIC CITY
To the Editor:
Re “Immigrant Children Cry Out in Audio Recorded at Detention Center” (nytimes.com, June 18):
I’m sorry but I can’t seem to put this any other way. Or maybe I don’t want to put it any other way. Because if you can hear the voices of those little children on that audiotape and not be moved to tears — and then not be moved to moral outrage, righteous indignation, deeply and strongly felt anger at the horrifically horrible treatment of children done in the name of our nation — then I worryingly wonder about the condition of your humanity, your soul, your spirit, your heart, your caring and compassion.
None of us who have children, or have grandchildren or have any concern whatsoever for the children of anyone else, can possibly not be severely upset at the God-awful trauma being inflicted on these children.
This must be stopped! Whatever it takes — this must be stopped!
RODNEY NOEL SAUNDERS
FLORISSANT, COLO.
The writer is a retired United Methodist pastor.
To the Editor:
Regarding the separation of refugee children from their parents: Put simply, this is a hostage situation. The Trump administration is holding these children hostage until Congress passes immigration legislation that meets President Trump’s approval.
That this policy is cruel to refugee families and offensive to political moderates make little difference to the president, since for him cruelty is just a bargaining tactic. He will continue to hold these children hostage — and take delight in the discomfiture of moderates — until he gets what he wants, or at least can claim he got what he wanted.
DON BROPHY, NEW YORK
To the Editor:
Where are the babies being held? Where are the girls being held? We have not seen pictures or heard a word of them. Are they housed in the cages like the ones that hold the boys? Who comforts and holds the youngest ones when they cry? Who is changing the diapers?
Who is comforting the 11-year-old-girl who is menstruating for the first time? Are there enough pads for all the teenagers who need them? How often can they bathe? Who can stop any bullying? Who are the “caregivers”? What qualifications do they have? How many doctors and nurses are on hand?
This is intolerable and a violation of every human right of child and parent.
BARRIE T. COLLINS
WALLINGFORD, CONN.
To the Editor:
If the families arriving on our doorstep were blond and blue-eyed, say from Norway or England, I wonder whether they would be separated — or treated humanely.
MARY MCLEOD, ST. PAUL
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